Exploiting Hollywood 1980 Chapter 867

  Chapter 867 Working Girl

   "Mr. Li, Mr. Li?"

  A young girl with the appearance of a secretary, wearing high heels, ran into Ronald's business jet lounge at Los Angeles Airport. One by one, they opened the door to look for Ronald.

   "Ah, Mr. Li, you are here..." Ronald waved to her, and she finally saw herself.

   "Mr. Goldberg asked me to send this script to the airport. I didn't know how to get to the terminal for business jet passengers. I asked a lot of people to find the way in. It's really great that there was no delay."

"Thank you, why don't you sit down and have breakfast together?" Ronald saw that she was very tired and had dark circles under her eyes. He probably slept very late last night, and the boss had to assign him such an extra task early in the morning. The daily working hours are also expected to be long.

  Looking at her, Ronald thought of his cousin Donna a little bit. These girls who have just worked for a long time are the most hardworking, and there are not many girls who continue to work hard after two or three years.

   "Thank you", the girl sat down and picked up the sandwich and ate it. Ronald handed her a glass of orange juice.

   "Mr. Li, our plane is ready to board."

   After a while, the stewardess came and asked Ronald to board the plane. He motioned for the secretary girl to finish eating before sending her back. Holding the script in his hand, he boarded the plane with little Bud who was carrying the luggage.

   "I am Captain Jimmy O'Connor, and on behalf of the entire crew, I welcome on board Mr. Ronald Lee, the film director who made our Navy pilots so respected."

  Ronald laughed out loud. He did not expect that the captain of the business jet this time was a retired fighter pilot from the Navy. He was also invited into the cab and took a group photo with the crew.

   Returning to his seat, Ronald took the black tea from the stewardess, and then opened the script he just got.

  The script is neat and tidy, but the paper is a bit rough, indicating that this is a copy that has been circulated by many people. The title of the film is simply written on the cover:

   "Working Girl"

   "By Kevin Wade" is the name of the screenwriter written in typewriter fonts, and there is only one.

   "I haven't heard of it", Ronald thought to himself, the script that Goldberg sent him was actually written by an unknown screenwriter?

   Ronald continued to flip down. Goldberg doesn't send in an uninteresting script for nothing.

   "Working Girl"

   fade out, fade in...

  1 Location. Highlands on Staten Island - Shots from the series - Scene 1

   in the morning

  Close-up of walking steps. One of them, wearing worn-out, rain-soaked running shoes, was running quickly down the hill.

  The camera extends the island's calf, beautiful leg, trotting. The owner of the leg reached down and pulled up a stocking that had lost its elasticity and sagged.

   Panorama by Teresa McGill. For her friend, it was Tess, a secretary in her late twenties who was close to her third year.

  She looks very attractive, but there is nothing exciting, but she has her unique **** appeal.

   She is trying to balance umbrella, newspaper, and briefcase, almost like juggling.

   Camera angle reversal, panning...

   We see her walking toward the slow-moving crowd of hundreds of commuters pouring into the entrance of the Staten Island Ferry, huddled against the rain and gray morning.

  Camera pulls back from Tess, long view...

  Tess blended into the crowd who went to work in Manhattan.

   "Huh?" Ronald understood what Goldberg was thinking, no wonder he was looking for himself. It tells the story of my aunt's home on Staten Island. He turned a page and continued reading...

   Interior. Staten Island Ferry – same as above (indicates the sequence shot immediately above), Scene 2

   Tess and Cyn, her secretarial colleague, and best friend, Cyn, have a short, explosive release, very heavily made-up, and the two are huddled together on wooden benches on a crowded ferry.

   On the ferry. Tess held a bouquet of flowers in her hand, and Sheen lit a match on top of a Twinkie butter cake. She started singing "Happy Birthday" with a thick accent.

   One or two passengers joined the song, but the vast majority began to complain, some quite loudly.

   Tess smiled and blew out the match. The siren of the ferry was very loud. Everyone is scrambling to run to the exit.

  The more Ronald watched, the more he felt that the texture of this script was similar to the movie with grand aerial shots that he had dreamed of several times on the plane to and from New York and Los Angeles.

  The core of the story is an older female secretary named Tess, who continues to study hard. She had a seriously ill mother to care for, and she took night school and followed the financial news in between her heavy work and family obligations.

  She was on the ferry one day and saw a very good merger and acquisition opportunity in the news, but her boss, a staid middle-aged man, did not believe that a secretary like her could propose a merger and acquisition proposal.

  Finally, a friend of her boss, a merger and acquisition consultant named Jack Trainer (Jack Trainer), understood her, and cooperated with Tess to propose a great merger and acquisition plan to a company that owns the property rights of television networks.

  At this time, Tess's boss saw that his secretary was able to surpass him, so he became black-hearted and claimed that the plan was his own.

   Tess, who has fallen in love with Jack Trainor, hopes that her boyfriend, Trainor, can help her to clarify to all the big bosses of the company who is the original creator of the plan.

  But under the coercion of Tess' boss, Trainor had to give up Tess, saying that the plan was her boss's original idea, and Tess just plagiarized her boss' idea.

  However, Tess produced evidence to prove that she was the original creator of the merger and acquisition plan. Her boss and Trainor were fired, and Tess' wish for years of struggle finally came true.

  When the plane flew over the Midwest, Ronald had already watched the last scene in one go:

  Another angle, inner office, continue, scene 260

   Tess: All right.

  Ben (Tess's male secretary after her promotion) closes the door behind him. Tess walked to the window, looked out, then tentatively sat on the bench, laying down leisurely,

   Tess was as happy as a kid in a candy store. She walked over to the phone, took a piece of paper from her wallet, and made a long distance call.

   Tess:

   (to the phone)

   Yes, look for "Cynthia O'Rourke!

   "Sin, guess where I am?"

   "Well, it doesn't seem to be a movie." Ronald closed the script and carefully compared it with the scenes in his dream. The content of his dream was not in the script.

  For example, the beginning and the end, the two great aerial shots by helicopter, and the long shots with full focal length zoom, are definitely not in this script.

   Either someone changed the script, or there was another movie with similar content. Ronald closed the finished script and thought to himself.

  This screenwriter named Kevin Wade, his writing style is very similar to the screenwriter John Patrick Shanley who he worked with last time on "Moonlight Sultry". Many scenes have a very strong stage style.

  For example, I like to use a series of shots to complete a dense plot in a limited space. This is an inevitable requirement for stage theaters, but it is not necessarily necessary for film shooting.

   "Thank you for the ride, thank you." At the New York airport, the crew members of the former Navy pilot came to say goodbye to Ronald.

   "Thank you", Ronald took another photo with them under the plane, then turned to Little Bud and said, "You go to pick up the car, I'll make a phone call first."

"Mr. Goldberg, I just arrived in New York, yes, I read the script on the plane, I like the tone of the story, but I want to meet the screenwriter Kevin Wade to talk about what can be changed. "

   "What do you think can be adjusted?" Goldberg was very happy when he heard Ronald's call. The original director, Michael Nichols, had a lot of requirements for shooting, some of which were unacceptable to Fox.

   It's good for Fox to have a new contender.

   "I have two ideas. First, Tess's boss should be a woman, so that her way of replacing her boss with Li Daitao will be convincing. Otherwise, it is impossible for Wall Street to listen to a secretary's high-spirited talk."

"Very reasonable." Goldberg has no objection to this. If Tess has a female boss, then Jack Trainor can be written as her boss's boyfriend, so that some love triangle blood can be added to the script. With elements of a romantic drama, audiences will love it.

   "What's the other idea?"

  “Another idea, the details of mergers and acquisitions in the script are a bit flippant. The background of this story is very realistic. We need to make the details of the mergers and acquisitions so that employees working on Wall Street can't see the flaws.”

  Ronald likes this story very much, but the details of the M&A case are a bit exaggerated and lack authenticity.

When Ronald read it, he felt that this story was like the "Secret of Success" starring Helen Slater and Michael J. Fox. The main story focused on the hero's love story, work and mergers and acquisitions. It has been simplified into the kind of cartoony stories in middle school students' general education textbooks.

  But that movie is a romantic love story, and this movie is a business war drama. Tess's story needs to be set off by very authentic business war details.

   "Is that so? Not many screenwriters know Wall Street."

   "I can find some people who understand Wall Street, participate in the rewriting of the script, and turn it into a movie with the most realistic details of business warfare. In addition, I want to find a screenwriter to rewrite a draft."

   "I remember your request, you give me a feasible plan first, and we will contact you later."

   "Huh?" Ronald felt that Goldberg's tone was a bit wrong. Could it be that he was looking for himself, more of a competitor, so as to lower the price of the original director Michael Nichols? Or strive for a greater right to speak?

   "What about the screenwriter Kevin Wade?" Ronald thought for a while, but asked if he could meet with the screenwriter without breaking the news.

   "Sure, I'll have him call you, he's in New York."

   Little Bard packed his luggage and came to find Ronald who was on the phone.

   "Let's go to the apartment on Fifth Avenue. You call the lobby manager, turn on the air conditioner for me, and order another meal. I have to work at night."

   "Okay..." Bud opened the car door, let Ronald come up, and called the apartment on Fifth Avenue.

  Ronald took out a blank paper from his bag and began to draw pencil drawings on it. He tried to draw the beginning and the ending of the dream, two aerial shots.

  By the time he got to the apartment on Fifth Avenue, Ronald had finished drawing two scenes.

  He put together the draft and the script, made a few phone calls, and first made an appointment with Michael Gray, a marketing consultant who had arrived in New York earlier, to chat about the premiere of "Moonlight Sultry" in New York.

"Better than L.A., New York, and we had all the supporting Broadway actors who were in the shoot. We also had some celebrities, like members of the rock band Bon Jovi, and some of your actor friends in New York, Shirley Mack Lynn, Matt Dillon, et al.

   Oh, by the way, there is also the socialite of the Kennedy family, JKF's sister-in-law Lee Radziwiu. That leaves Cher and Nicolas Cage. "

  The arrangements for the premiere in New York are even higher than those in Los Angeles. There are quite a few socialites like Lee Radziwiew here in New York, who actually have no occupation but know a lot of people.

  If such a courtesan can be found at the premiere, it will attract many celebrities, which is good for the promotion of the movie.

   And Bon Jovi's lead singer, Jon Bon Jovi, lives in New York. He loves dating movie stars, loves to join in the fun.

"Is Xue Er still coming with her little baker boyfriend?" Seeing Gray nodded, Ronald continued to confirm the list of all the guests with him, "Well, please remind Nicolas Cage, this time his The PR should dress him up well, and by the way, he also needs to find a female companion."

   After confirming the details, Ronald was already tired. He took a shower and slept on the big bed.

   "Huh...", a burst of drowsiness hit me.

  A woman with the appearance of a tall female secretary with long light yellow hair and combed hair, got off the ferry on Staten Island. Next to her was another friend with heavy makeup, who also looked like a secretary, with colorful hair like a chicken coop, and extremely colorful eye shadows, but the actress's face looked very cute.

  They both wore very cheap clothes, the fair-haired secretary in an oversized leather jacket and a pair of white sneakers. Obviously Tess from the movie.

  Her friend, Xin with colorful hair, is also wearing a red coat and blue silk scarf, both cheap.

   "Hey, isn't this Melanie Griffith?" Ronald recognized the actor, who was the heroine of Jonathan Demme's movie "Shotgun Lulu".

   Could it be that she starred in this movie? It was unexpected.

  Ronald found it interesting that Melanie was about the same age as the heroine Tess, in her thirties. Her experience is also a bit similar to that of the protagonist Tess, who was born as a child star and starred.

  But this appearance is very boring. Tess looked like an old secretary whose life was not satisfactory, the kind with no future.

   Can she really transform into a **** girl who makes the hearts of Wall Street elites?

  The movie was playing forward, and Ronald saw Melanie Griffiths again. She was already wearing a black low-cut diamond-encrusted formal suit, with black stockings and high heels underneath, very sexy.

  She was in a bar, looking for Jack Trainor to chat about mergers and acquisitions.

  A very handsome guy, came to strike up a conversation.

   "Hello, I rarely see a **** lady like you on this occasion."

   "Why not? I have a mind suitable for business and a body that is tempting to commit crimes."

"Oh…"

  Ronald was also fascinated by Melanie Griffith's appearance. This actress is very malleable. The two appearances before and after are very suitable for the characters, and the audience can also see that it is the same person, which is very convincing.

   And the handsome man who came to strike up a conversation seemed to be played by Harrison Ford.

   "Hey hey hey... It seems that this is the movie. The star is out, there is no doubt."

  But why, this scene of Tess changing shoes on the pier is so familiar, I seem to have seen something similar.

   "Huh? Ah... not bad..." Ronald was awakened by his own doubts.

  He touched the edge of the bed, but it didn't fall off. The special mattress was really big enough.

   "I figured it out", Ronald, who was eagerly trying to remember the dream on the bed, finally thought of the source of the scene of changing shoes.

   This is not a movie, but Trisha Kate, who was the secretary of a Wall Street company at the pier in Staten Island, did this in real life. She was afraid that her high-heeled shoes would be damaged on the ferry, so she always put the shoes in a bag and took them to the office to change them.

   "Also, Trisha's nickname seems to be Tess. Could it be that Kevin Wade adapted it based on her true story?"

   Ronald wrote down the things to do tomorrow in his notebook and invited Theresa Kate to chat.

   Then fell asleep again.

  (end of this chapter)

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